There is 'relief' among BBC staff that Huw Edwards resigned after he was being paid in full while he was suspended following the sex photo scandal, a TV executive says.
There is 'relief' among BBC staff that Huw Edwards resigned after he was being paid in full while he was suspended following the sex photo scandal, a TV executive says.
Broadcasting executive Stewart Purvis CBE said there is 'relief across the BBC' that the 'extraordinarily damaging saga' has been resolved. Broadcasting executive Stewart Purvis CBE said there is 'relief across the BBC' that the 'extraordinarily damaging saga' has been resolvedSpeaking to BBC News this afternoon, Mr Purvis said: 'I'm not surprised that the BBC has had to come to some conclusion on this, obviously they're saying that it's at the request of Huw Edwards, but there will be relief across the BBC that this situation has been resolved.
'But the BBC I'm sure would have wanted to get on and announce who is so they had to, in a sense, resolve the Huw Edwards issue first. That's just one of the extra questions they've had. 'All those issues had to be weighed up and if the solution at the end of the day is that Huw Edwards walked from the BBC, then the BBC would see that as quite a successful outcome for what has been an extraordinarily damaging saga for the BBC.
He leaves with immediate effect - but is not known if the BBC's internal workplace investigation into whether Edwards brought the broadcaster into disrepute was completed. In February, the BBC apologised to the young person's family, who'd complained about Edwards two months before he was suspended, acknowledging that there had been 'shortcomings' in the way it had dealt with the case as it reviewed its complaints procedures.
Huw was the corporation's highest paid newsreader, with a pay bracket of £435,000 - £439,999 in the year 2022/2023, according to the corporation's most recent annual report.TV executive and former Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive of ITN, Stewart Purvis, said today: 'Huw Edwards has been paid half a million pounds a year to do nothing, I don't think that situation could have continued any longer.
'You can't have the fact one of the most trusted men in Britain turns out really to not be worthy of that trust.' Clive Myrie, 59, has been tipped as the news presenter who could front the BBC's election coverage and succeed Edwards as the News at Ten anchor.He was accused of sending cash to a teenager in return for sexual photographs over three years. The teen is alleged to have use it to fund a crack cocaine habit.
He also took care to ensure that he was in peak physical condition, resuming the punishing boxing sessions that saw him shed three stone in 2019 under the supervision of former light welterweight champion, Clinton McKenzie. Edwards, who was born in Bridgend and brought up in Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, joined the BBC as a trainee in 1984. Pictured on the six o'clock news in 1999
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